I guess Colson was a bit upset that he went to prison and Nixon did not?? Anyone who thinks the feds are putting people in jail over petty narco busts is out of touch with reality.
A co-worker disclosed to me that he had been on a federal grand jury. They met every Friday for around 6 months (which by the way makes it nearly impossible to keep secret, since he missed so much work).
Anyway, he said every case was the same: “guns and drugs”...”drugs and guns”. They always went together. He said they saw hundreds of cases, and only one was just “drugs”...and he sarcastically asked the prosecutor ‘what about the gun?’.
My take away - not surprisingly, the vast majority of federal drug prosecutions involve guns...which is probably the entire reason these prosecutions are federal in the first place. He didn’t see any cases of street corner drug dealers.
After Colson served his Watergate time he became a Born Again Christian and founded one of the most successful prison ministries in the world. To my knowledge he never advocated that the people he was ministering to should not do their time. He died in 2012.